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    Starman: The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin
    Piers Bizony & Jamie Doran, Bloomsbury, 1999 (ISBN 9780747542674)

    The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives, Legacy, and Historical Impact
    Colin Burgess & Rex Hall, Springer, 2009 (ISBN 9780387848235)

    Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961–1965
    Francis French & Colin Burgess, Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2007 (ISBN 0803211465)

    Russia’s Cosmonauts: Inside the Yuri Gagarin Training Centre
    Bert Vis, David J. Shayler & Rex Hall, Springer-Praxis, 2005 (ISBN 0387218947)

    The Road to the Stars
    Yuri Gagarin, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1961

    Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat the Americans to the Moon
    James Harford, John Wiley & Sons, 1997 (ISBN 0471148539)

    Two Sides of the Moon
    Alexei Leonov, David Scott, Thomas Dunne Books, New York, 2004 (ISBN 0312308655)

    Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974
    Asif Siddiqi, NASA, Washington DC, 2000 (SP-2000-4408)

    Vostok-1, First Human in Space
    Michael D. Cole, Springfield, Enslow, 2005 (ISBN 0894905414)

    The Soviet Cosmonaut Team
    Gordon R. Hooper, GRH Publications, Suffolk, 1986, (ISBN 0951131206)

    The Rocket Men: Vostok and Voskhod, The First Soviet Manned Spaceflights
    Rex Hall & David Shayler, Springer-Praxis, 2001 (ISBN 9781852333911)

    Soyuz: A Universal Spacecraft
    Rex Hall & David Shayler, Springer-Praxis, 2003 (ISBN 9781852336578)

    Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space
    Mitchell R. Sharpe, Strode, 1969, (ISBN 978-0873972031)

    Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space
    Wilfred Burchett & Anthony Purdy, A.Gibbs & Phillips, London, 1961

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